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That scene still does look great. I believe they used Wire Frame CGI or something. I forget it exactly but I remember a pretty indepth thing about it on the DVD. A lot of the film still holds up, there are just a few scenes where it looks dated. It's going to happen to everything CGI at the end of the day.
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody. If, he can help it."-- Mark Twain
KillKaylaDead: Even your body looks like it was hand crafted by the gods.
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Well, you have to convince those not living in this cozy existence that their and their neighbor's lives are worth more than their culture affords them. Western culture has what it has by taking. History is full of examples of cultures who finally decided to stop being the battered wife who stayed with their abusive husband. It's lacking in examples of benevolent societies riding in on a white horse to the rescue, then move on to the next with the liberated then miraculously prospering because all they needed was the chance to really make a go of it and find their own worth without an outside force pushing them to be this or that, thanks to a different outside force.
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All of the bug attacks were CGI and this film is a prime example of stuff that couldn't have been done any other way. Both the night and day scenes hold up very well though the rendering is aided by capitalizing on insect exoskeletons being very plastic by nature anyhow. Still, over a decade later, you see the difference here between real artists who can make a plastic bug look like it was actually photographed in the scene versus the stuff that ends up on SyFy made by folks that can't even do convincing looking plastic.
You can tell the practical bug props because they don't move like they're alive.
The CGI bugs move like they're alive because they were animated by the talented, stop-motion-turned-CG animators of Tippet Studio. It should have won the year it was up for the Oscar but everyone had Titanic fever.
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Fucking oath. Kubrick could just attack an audience on a psychological level. He was simply amazing.
Agreed. It's a marvellous achievement. I think it was such a copout that it didn't win.
True that, I remember the last time I watched Spider-Man I was just thinking "Wow, that looks like ass now." Not once does that come to mind in Starship Troopers. There are a few scenes that look a little dated, and I mean a little, but you're never sitting there going "I can't believe I thought this used to look good."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody. If, he can help it."-- Mark Twain
KillKaylaDead: Even your body looks like it was hand crafted by the gods.
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Yeah, Spider-Man moves and looks like Gumby in that first one especially.
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I think Raimi's first Spider-Man is terrible in general. Poor casting with Maiguire and Dunst, horrible FX work, ultra cheesy dialogue. Dafoe is clearly having a blast. It's just too bad he's dressed up as a retarded power ranger.
Starship Troopers was one of the coolest films I saw as a kid in the 90's and it's still a badass flick. I'd love for Verhoeven to make another flick like that, Total Recall or Robocop. I don't care what anyone says about it but I fucking loved Hollow Man, though. Kevin Bacon as an invisible man raping chicks and sucking on titties? FTW in my book.
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Flash Gordon
The BluRay of this is utterly stunning. I was not expecting such an amazing transfer. If you're a fan of this (lets face it, anyone who isn't just isn't human) you need to get this!
DEATH TO MING!
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody. If, he can help it."-- Mark Twain
KillKaylaDead: Even your body looks like it was hand crafted by the gods.
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Klip (2012) ~ 6 / 10
Although at times the movie hints at bottom a social complaint alleged, is lost on the road in my opinion because they do not delves into causes or consequences.
And everything is reduced simply to the adventures of a spoiled serbia teen, drugs and sex. It is true that the sex scenes are explicit and that gives extra spice and more crude, but beyond that there is not much more.
" Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin. "
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The Hobbit